Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is only one specific suggestion I should like to make. I should like to have added to the curriculum in the department of education a course in Harvard History. The danger of this, of course, is that it should turn into a mutual admiration society. But under the right man such a course should be made extremely valuable by portraying to us the traditions under which we are living, by giving us some idea of the theory of education as applied to an institution we are familiar with, and by teaching us history from first hand materials...
...Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school curriculum as the beginning of educational reform...
Life. The students of the Experimental College were segregated in one dormitory, but many of them engaged in campus athletics and extra-curriculum activities. They had their own dramatic club, which produced The Clouds of Aristophanes and Electro, of Euripides. Then, fraternizing their classical strides, the students adopted as the official uniform of the Experimental College a blue blazer with pearl grey trimming and with emblem of sacred Athenian owl. Many a Wisconsin's farmer's son twitted them for wearing it. The relations of the faculty and students were close-teas and chats being mentioned with enthusiasm...
...semester the question of a reading period for Dartmouth again regains some significance. Writing in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, President Lowell states that the experiment at Harvard has shown the most gratifying results. Whether or not a reading period of two weeks duration would fit into the Dartmouth curriculum is, of course, beside the point at this late date. There are, quite naturally, many courses that do not lend themselves gracefully to any such radical change as this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that...
...topographic surveying, including cartography, triangulations, land, road and shoreline surveys, and observations for the determination of meridian and latitude; railroad surveying, with earthwork, slope-staking, preliminary survey, estimate of quantities and cost and other subjects connected with the laying of railroads will also be a part of the curriculum...